Whatever happened to quality, style and taste in this world? I listen to music whenever possible, and my hard drive is very unhappy about that. I believe in reinvention, burlesque, modeling, learning, and being wrong. Vanity is a strange affliction and it amuses me above all else and is harmless. This year marks the 10th anniversary of my official foray into DJing. 7 years for the so-called modeling. I'm continually moving forward. You can stand still or lie still when you're dead.
..Be a good person who is true to yourself and who lives life deliberately and not accidentally. Mindfulness goes a long way with me, as well as humor. Oh yeah, don't be someone who treats my friends with disrespect.
..Alaska, Amon Tobin, Angelo Badalamenti, Apparat, Aphex Twin, Arovane, Augustus Pablo, Autechre, Aux 88, Barry Adamson, Bauhaus, Beaumont Hannant, Bjork, Black Heart Procession, Blonde Redhead, Boards of Canada, Brian Eno, Broadcast, Broken Social Scene, The Buzzcocks, Carla Bruni, Cesaria Evora, Chuck Berry, Cabaret Voltaire, Cinematic Orchestra, Clark, The Clash, Cocteau Twins, The Cure, Danny Breaks, David Bowie, David Holmes, Dead Can Dance, Depeche Mode, Dillinja, Drexciya, Dylan UK, Ellen Allien, Esquivel, Fugazi, Funckarma, Funkstörung, Future Sound of London, Gogol Bordello, Goldfrapp, Happy Mondays, The Herbaliser, Jaga Jazzist, The Jam, Jean-Paul Bondy, Jeff Buckley, Jim Campilongo Electric Trio, Joy Division, The Knife, Kraftwerk, Lamb, Leonard Cohen, Loquat, Loscii, Love and Rockets, Low, Massive Attack, Mazzy Star, Meat Beat Manifesto, Mirah, Monolake, Mulatu Astatke, Mum, Muse, New Order, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Nicola Conte, Nightmares on Wax, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Orb, Orbital, Oscar Peterson, Pan Sonic, Parts and Labor, Patti Smith, Pinback, PJ Harvey, The Police, Public Enemy, Pulp, Queen, Radiohead, Richie Hawtin/Plastikman, Rolling Stones, Scorn, Serge Gainsbourg, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Skinny Puppy, The Smiths, Squarepusher, Stereolab, talkdemonic, Talking Heads, Tom Waits, Trentemøller, Two Lone Swordsmen, u-ziq, Vangelis, Vex'd, Wes Montgomery. And oh so much more.
..A Scanner Darkly, Amelie, An Inconvenient Truth, Belle De Jour, Breakfast at Tiffany's, BLADE RUNNER, BRAZIL, Cement Garden, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Children of Men, Christiane F., City of Lost Children, the Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover, Dark City, Day Watch, Delicatessen, Donnie Darko, Drugstore Cowboy, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fight Club, How to Get Ahead in Advertising, Idiocracy, the Illusionist, Incredibles, Koyannisqatsi, La Haine, Lost Highway, Meet Joe Black, Mirrormask, Night Watch, Nomi Song, Pan's Labyrinth, The Prestige, Proof, Ratatouille, Running with Scissors, Sin City, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, THX1138, 24 Hour Party People, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, US vs. John Lennon, V for Vendetta, Wild at Heart, Who Killed the Electric Car?, Withnail and I, Young Frankenstein. There are a lot more movies that I need to see, and I might have to revise this list accordingly.
..Dexter, The Office, Spaced, Tim Gunn's Guide to Style, nip/tuck, Spongebob Squarepants, and I haven't watched anything lately really, except for The Office on DVD.
..Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, The Soul of Sex, Night Watch, Passionate Marriage, The Raw Food Detox Diet, Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, In the Country of Last Things, Ask and It is Given, Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda, Awakening the Buddha Within, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, The Intellectual Devotional, Oracle Night, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century, What do YOU care what they think?, Aesthetics of Consumerism, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, The Wrong Boy, Survival of the Prettiest, A Spy in the House of Love, Living Alone and Loving It, And I Don't Want to Live This Life, and lots more.
..“Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of ''the rat race'' is not yet final.†- Hunter S. Thompson